What's the best way to garrison your Pacific Islands as Japan? GAR divisions with AA, ENG, or something else?
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My philosophy towards islands is that physically holding them is an afterthought, minus the key strategic ones. For a key island, a corps of three infantry brigaded with 2 ART and 1 AA plus defensive forts will hold out for a long time. For regular old islands, leave them blank, as garrison and supply is a waste of men and convoys. Let the enemy have them, and interdict their convoys if they insist on leaving troops.
I just garrison any island with VP or bases, in which case I use GAR+ART. Works, and is cheap as well.
If it is less important - like VP and no base - use GAR+ART. That is usually enough against AI, more so if the terrain favors defence (mountain, jungle)
If there is flat land and/or you need to protect a base use 3 INF plus either ART/ART/ENG or ART/AA/ENG. Always put in the Pioneers because that way all DIVs that are in the same army dig in not only 20 but 40 and have more defence value. That way you are less dependend on costal forts, and you save IC. Dont count on the forts too much, they are good but can be bombed and they tend to get destroyed in a long combat (loosing their benifits until they are rebuild) - the 40 entrenchment bonus stays no matter what.
Cheaper but still good is INF/INF/MIL with ART/ENG for the INF. Lots of advantages and nearly the same effect. Less supply consumption, less IC, less MP and so on. When fully dug in no bombing can harm you anyway so AA is not so important.
Also you can consider using GAR on islands where there is no retreat possible anyway - and using INF in places where you can retreat (if there is no fleet blocking you that is) Switch on victory or death in any case, just to be save.
If there is flat land and/or you need to protect a base use 3 INF plus either ART/ART/ENG or ART/AA/ENG. Always put in the Pioneers because that way all DIVs that are in the same army dig in not only 20 but 40 and have more defence value. That way you are less dependend on costal forts, and you save IC. Dont count on the forts too much, they are good but can be bombed and they tend to get destroyed in a long combat (loosing their benifits until they are rebuild) - the 40 entrenchment bonus stays no matter what.
Cheaper but still good is INF/INF/MIL with ART/ENG for the INF. Lots of advantages and nearly the same effect. Less supply consumption, less IC, less MP and so on. When fully dug in no bombing can harm you anyway so AA is not so important.
Also you can consider using GAR on islands where there is no retreat possible anyway - and using INF in places where you can retreat (if there is no fleet blocking you that is) Switch on victory or death in any case, just to be save.
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but, and there is always a big but(t), this is kind of irrelevant to the americans and even the british, who can simply land in, say, the philippines despite you taking all of the bases from all the pacific and indian ocean.
however, yes the best thing is to leave a garrison with arty. what i like to do though is gather all my armies at the outset of pearl harbor and land the living ass out of the USA. it beats getting cheated by the AI as they spawn armies and TP literally out of nowhere and land them 10000 km away from the nearest supply base.
however, yes the best thing is to leave a garrison with arty. what i like to do though is gather all my armies at the outset of pearl harbor and land the living ass out of the USA. it beats getting cheated by the AI as they spawn armies and TP literally out of nowhere and land them 10000 km away from the nearest supply base.
True - AI cheats and can land anywhere independent of distance to any supply base. But if that wasn't so then we would likely never see any landings anywhere. Just imagine trying to tell the AI that it needs to move its forces into position in a port - supply them and then send a coordinated strike force to land somewhere within range of their home base before running out of supplies.
Also it is kind of realistic as the US navy established some sort of sea train to supply any base and any fleet anywhere in the pacific. So actually range did not matter so much. Many landings were actually launched from Pearl or Wake regardless of where their target was. Maybe it helps you if you imagine that - it helps me.
Also it is kind of realistic as the US navy established some sort of sea train to supply any base and any fleet anywhere in the pacific. So actually range did not matter so much. Many landings were actually launched from Pearl or Wake regardless of where their target was. Maybe it helps you if you imagine that - it helps me.